Elsie Finnimore Buckley

Elsie Finnimore Buckley
Born	(1882-08-01)1 August 1882 Calcutta, British India
Died	6 June 1959(1959-06-06) (aged 76) Depwade,[1] Norfolk, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Writer and translator

Elsie Finnimore Buckley (1 August 1882 – 6 June 1959^[2]) was an English writer and translator.

Buckley was born in Calcutta, the daughter of Robert Burton Buckley, a civil engineer, and Ada Marian Sarah Finnimore. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge. In March 1899, at age 16, Buckley won a gold medal in the Société Nationale des Professeurs de Français en Angleterre's annual French language and literature competition.^[3] She married the writer Anthony Ludovici on 20 March 1920, and they first lived at 35 Central Hill, Upper Norwood in South London.^[4]

In Children of the Dawn, Old Tales of Greece (1909), it is noted that the writer possesses a terse simplicity of style, and that the book is an "almost inexhaustible treasure-house of the ancient Greek tales".^[5] However, because the book was considered to be on a serious topic, a reviewer at the time said: "The plain truth is that this is not woman's work, and a woman has neither the knowledge nor the literary tact necessary for it."^[6]

Essays from her book of Greek tales for children, Children of the Dawn, have appeared in other collections aimed at the younger audience.^[7][8] The tales are still included in bibliographies of books on ancient cultures for young readers.^[9]

Works

• Children of the dawn: old tales of Greece, 1909. Read online
• (tr.) The century of the renaissance by Louis Batiffol. 1916.According to WorldCat, the book is held in 687 libraries ^[10] Open Library entry
• (tr.) The earliest times by Frantz Funck-Brentano. 1927. Borrow ebook from Open Library
• (tr.) The third republic by Raymond Recouly. 1928. Open Library Entry
• (tr.) The restoration and the July monarchy by Jean Lucas-Dubreton. 1929. Open Library entry
• (tr.) The second republic and Napoleon III by René Arnaud. 1930.
• (tr.) Charlotte Corday by Michel Corday. 1931.
• (tr.) The consulate and the empire, 1789-1809 by Louis Madelin. Open Library entry
• (tr.) Luther by Frantz Funck-Brentano. 1936.
• (tr.) The consulate and the empire by Louis Madelin. 1937.

References

1. Registration District
2. "Person Page - 61424". The Peerage. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
3. "French Masters at the Mansion-House". The Times (London). 20 March 1899. p. 12.
4. Girton College (1948). Girton College Register: 1869-1946. Privately printed for Girton College. p. 131. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
5. Bookseller (Public domain ed.). J. Whitaker and Sons, Limited. 1908. pp. 54–.
6. Tuchman, Gaye; Fortin, Nina E. (2012). Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change. New York: Routledge. p. 87. ISBN 9781136290787.
7. Buckly, Else Finnimore. The Curse of Echo. The Story Tellers' Magazine, Number 4 Volume 5. April 1917 [1]
8. Anna Cogswell Tyler (1921), Twenty-four unusual stories for boys and girls, New York: Harcourt, Brace, OL 7173963M
9. Brazouski, Antoinette, and Mary J. Klatt. Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1994.
10. WorldCat item record

External links

• Works by Elsie Finnimore Buckley at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Elsie Finnimore Buckley at the Internet Archive